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Wages in 2025 showed modest but consistent gains over 2024: nominal average weekly wages rose about 4.2% between July 2024 and July 2025 and several official series report year‑over‑year wage increase...
— and in limited cases transfer — foreign sovereign assets through a mix of statutory authorities, executive orders implemented by ’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (), civil-forfeiture statutes enf...
The United States displays compared with many other developed countries: the U.S. houses the largest aggregate billionaire wealth and a very large share of national wealth in its top percentiles, whil...
US inflation has eased from its 2023 highs but exact current CPI figures for the US are not in the provided sources; Euro‑area inflation was about 2.2% in November 2025 (flash estimate) and the UK’s C...
European mortgages are often shorter or offered with shorter fixed-rate periods than typical U.S. 30‑year fixed-rate loans because of differences in market structure, secondary‑market support, lender ...
The length of a mortgage term in Germany is primarily shaped by the , producing common outcomes like 10‑ to 30‑year overall maturities with many borrowers choosing 10‑ to 15‑year fixed periods for sec...
’s gold stockpile has become substantially more valuable in dollar terms since the February 2022 invasion of , driven principally by a that roughly doubled bullion’s dollar price in the years that fol...
— both official (central banks/governments) and private (banks, funds, pensions, households) — sit on a material share of foreign-held Treasuries, but exact splits are contested: total foreign holding...
Several commodity markets have shifted or oscillated between “paper” pricing dominated by futures, indices and financialized instruments and periods where physical fundamentals—inventory, deliverable ...
A rapid "financial reset"—whether a sovereign debt restructuring, sweeping currency re-denomination, or abrupt repricing of risk assets—would sharply raise short‑term liquidity strains and credit loss...
Annual headline inflation fell in most major economies from 2024 to 2025: the euro area’s headline rate is reported falling from about 4.0% in 2024 to roughly 3.2% in 2025 in ECB staff projections , w...
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) concentrate far more transaction and identity data than cash, creating new privacy and cybersecurity risks that could expose consumers to surveillance, data mis...
Between 2017 and early 2020 OPEC+ production coordination coincided with upward pressure on global crude prices and, through that channel, on U.S. gasoline: academic analysis finds the coalition raise...
Markets often move most on shifts in expectations rather than the mechanical policy change announced at FOMC meetings: when the Fed cut 25 basis points in 2025, Treasury yields generally dipped modest...
Central bank reserve allocations have shifted modestly in recent years toward diversification—more and selective additions of non‑dollar assets—while the dollar remains the dominant reserve currency, ...
The claim that " has the in " collapses under basic facts: Italy is a with global strengths in manufacturing, luxury goods and exports, yet it also suffers structural weaknesses—high public debt, regi...
The short answer: —there is technically enough global electricity to power rapidly expanding AI workloads in the near term, but doing so without major trade-offs to emissions, water use and local grid...
Il cambio è stato in rafforzamento nell’ultimo anno, con valori che hanno toccato livelli record rispetto a metà 2021 e guadagni a doppia cifra su base annua secondo le serie di mercato , e gli analis...
is emerging from a multi-year slump into a cautiously optimistic but fragile recovery driven largely by stepped-up public spending on defence and infrastructure and a modest rebound in exports; most f...
Foreign holders like Japan and the eurozone stabilize or destabilize U.S. Treasury markets through three concrete channels—portfolio flows, cross-border yield arbitrage (including hedging costs), and ...